In San Francisco for the 2009 LSA Annual Meeting
     
Tamara Nicol Medina

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228

Phone: 215.898.0327
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CV (Updated March 15, 2009)

 

Research Interests


  • Word learning
  • Conceptual development
  • Verb meaning and argument realization
  • Syntactic theory

 

Downloadable Papers and Presentations


Medina, Tamara Nicol; Trueswell, John; Snedeker, Jesse; & Gleitman, Lila R. 2009. Using Extra-Linguistic Cues to Identify the Good Word Learning Instances. (ppt) Paper presented at the SRCD Bi-Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Apr. 2.

Medina, Tamara Nicol; Trueswell, John; Snedeker, Jesse; & Gleitman, Lila R. 2009. Rapid Word Learning Under Realistic Learning Conditions. (ppt) Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 9.

Medina, Tamara Nicol. 2008. Probabilistically Ranked Constraints: Derivation of the Gradient Grammaticality of Implicit Objects. (ppt) Poster presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Jan. 5.

Medina, Tamara Nicol. 2007. Learning when (and when not) to omit objects in English. (ppt) Invited Talk, presented at the Psicolingüística e Teoria Lingüística: Tentativas de diálogo (Workshop), Departmento de Lingüística, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. August 13, 2007.

Medina, Tamara Nicol. 2007. Gradient grammaticality of indefinite implicit objects in English. (ppt) Invited Talk, presented at the Departmento de Lingüística, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. August 15, 2007.

Medina, Tamara Nicol. 2007. Learning which verbs allow object omission: Verb semantic selectivity and the implicit object construction. (doc) Dissertation submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

 


Updated: March 15, 2009